Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, The Host ‘The Host’ trailer “The Earth is at peace. There are no wars. There’s no hunger,” intones Saoirse Ronan in The Host‘s teaser trailer (see…
Independent Cinema
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Jean Dujardin, Uggie the Dog in Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist It’s awards season. Your movie has been winning tons of trophies on two continents. What to do? After arriving in…
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Ra’anan Alexandrovicz’s The Law in These Parts Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild, the story of a young girl growing up in Louisiana (to be released by Fox Searchlight)…
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Swampland race relations: Old indie mixes reactionary ideas about interracial love with vengeance and voodoo in tragic actress’ final little-seen film.
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Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady with Anthony Head. The most curious thing about Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist winning the New York Film Critics Circle’s Best Film and Best Director…
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Who is The Iron Lady? Ask Meryl Streep, who plays Margaret Thatcher in the Phyllida Lloyd-directed biopic. Oscar veteran Meryl Streep may have her name already engraved on the Best…
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Cam Gigandet, 5 Star Day Directed by Danny Buday (photo), and starring Twilight‘s Cam Gigandet and Sucker Punch‘s Jena Malone,the psychological drama 5 Star Day opened via Breaking Glass Pictures…
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The name George Kuchar (seen on the right, with Marion Eaton in Thundercrack!) will probably not ring a bell to the vast majority of moviegoers anywhere in the world. Yet,…
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Watch the Spirit Awards: Paul Rudd Crotch and Eva Mendes breast grabbed plus Ben Stiller on Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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Erotic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (with plenty of bondage), Mr. Leather Contest: CineKink NYC also includes short film competition.
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Sex-Starved housewives and Gay Iranian refugees + veteran New Wave actress Marina Vlady: Sundance Film Festival highly eclectic film line-up.
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Michelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine. Winter’s Bone, in which an Ozark Mountain teenager hunts down her drug-dealing father, topped the 2011 Spirit Award nominations announced earlier today. Directed…
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“Gay zombie porn”: Bruce La Bruce’s L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky?) sex…
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Welcome to the Rileys with Kristen Stewart. Directed by Jake Scott, Welcome to the Rileys, which opened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, has been greeted by mixed-to-lukewarm reviews. For…
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Gay brothers’ taboo affair: Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcellos in Aluízio Abranches’ From Beginning to End. Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim / From Beginning to End, Donatella Maiorca’s…
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Gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan, Role/Play. Described as “an unheralded superstar in the American independent gay filmmaking scene,” gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery, among whose credits are…
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April 29: Screenwriter Rachel Bennette and directors Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod are basically all film newcomers in their respective capacities, though Donnellan and Ormerod have both done extensive and…
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The Bubble (1966) movie review: Starring Deborah Walley and Michael Cole, 3D B sci-fi thriller can be an enjoyable experience if you’re not picky.
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Remember Me Reviews: Robert Pattinson 1st Non-Twilight Starring Role mostly dismissed plus accusations of exploiting national tragedy.
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Easier with Practice with Brian Geraghty and Kel O’Neill. Easier with Practice, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s feature-film debut based on an autobiographical article written by Davy Rothbart for GQ, has been…
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The Slamdance Film Festival winners were announced Jan. 29. The Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Film went to Charles-Olivier Michaud’s Snow and Ashes (above), in which a war correspondent…
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Kristen Stewart: “I’m not ‘playing a stripper.’ It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know…
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Spirit Awards: Where’s Oscar season favorite and How American Is Tolstoy movie? + Pixar technically tops Annie Awards but not really.
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Super 8½ (1994) movie review: Underground Bruce La Bruce feature is a subversive, self-indulgently chaotic Citizen Kane + Fellini + gay explicit sex mélange.
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Fetish Festival: Featured movies include Modern Love Is Automatic by Zach Clark. Kiel’s Fetish Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 29-31 at the Traum-Kino in the northern German city, prides…
Bel Ami Trailer 2012: Robert Pattinson Realizes Sex Is the Most Effective Social-Climbing Gear with Uma Thurman + Kristin Scott Thomas in de Maupassant tale.
Oct. 27 update: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner will introduce a “never-before-seen clip” from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 at 7:56 p.m. ET – I…
Mark Zuckerberg Time Person of the Year Facebook Movie Oscar Push? Plus Lesbian Film Pioneer Barbara Hammer and Latest Oscar poster available to public.
Welcome to the Rileys box office: Kristen Stewart indie drama has turned out to be a major box office bomb. James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo costar.
Jesse Eisenberg, Mike O’Connell, The Living Wake Directed by Sol Tryon, and co-written by Mike O’Connell and Peter Kline, The Living Wake is the sort of movie that defies both…
Indie Spirit Awards: Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station ‘Indie’ Spirit Awards’ mostly mainstream winners The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie…
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008) movie review: 1957 Tennessee Williams script is mostly satisfying. Bryce Dallas Howard stars.